The Daily Curse TMC4U Sept 2020

 Welcome Back Friends,

Robin here guesting for Taylor Made Cards 4 U. Imagine my excitement when I got the call to guest for Taylor Made Cards 4 U ! I love Monica's kits, vintage, unique, and enough pieces in each kit to create a one of kind project! I got to work with The Daily Curse Kit which can be found here.

Every family has their skeletons in the closet and family secrets. I knew from a very young age that my maternal Great Grandmother was different, fun, mysterious, and had something that was not talked about. She was fashionable, but not in the current trend, fashionable in her own way. Talented in all areas of hand crafts, knitting, crocheting, paper crafts, a DIY-er before her time. She was the live in interior decorator at the very handsome,and popular Portage Hotel located in the Rubber Capital, Akron Ohio. 

As a young girl, she ran away with circus after it visited her home town, On the road with the circus hired as a costume designer, she found herself surrounded by mystics of all kinds. It was there she learned about her gift, Clairvoyance,the ability to see things that are not in sight. She learned to read tarot cards, tell fortunes, and maybe even dabbled in a little witch craft!

As  I created this project, I was inspired by my Great Grandmother's talents, bravery,independence, and knowing who she was, while smiling because my Mother has always told me, I am just like her.

Thank You for visiting and as always I appreciate your kind comments.

Until Next Time....

Robin

Getting Old Isn't for Sissies ! Old Time Truck Bottle Hanger APTTC May 1 2020

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Robin here with A Perfect Time To Craft Blog sharing me Old Timey Truck Bottle Hangers. Thanks to our fabulous sponsor for this month, Fred She Said!

Here is what I did:

Cut the base for you tag 2   3/4 inch  wide by 8   1/2 inch tall Cut your may 1/4 inch smaller.  Ink all edges if you link.The Old Time truck already comes colored,I fussy cut the truck out, inked the edges with walnut stain, set aside. I computer generated the sentiment Getting Old Is Not For Sissies, and die cut some cog and gears. Funny cut the sentiments and ink all edges. From there assemble the hangers, pop dotting the truck image.

These bottle Hangers are easy to do, however they make a huge impact! Perfect for gift giving or as a hostess gift!

Thank you for visiting and as always I appreciate your kind comments.

Until Next Time.....

Robin

How to make a Steampunk Altered Paint Brush.

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Robin here with ScraPerfect Blog, sharing my altered paintbrush, I created using The Best Ever Glue,
the quick stick glue for paper crafting.

Supplies: The Best Ever Glue
                 Paintbrush
                 Foam Brush
                 Stamps of your choice
                 Card Stock - Kraft
                 Paint
                 Word die cut
                  Embossing powder
                 Hot Glue Gun
                 Heat Gun

Here is what I did: I started out by creating my background paper. I used a 12x 12 piece of heavy stock. Using the foam brush, I brushed in haphazard strokes,  the darkest of the 3 colors I choose.
A dark tan, let dry, brush on the second color, light beige, let dry. Lastly, I used a doily stamp I had dipped in gold paint and stamped the entire sheet. Let dry.  I cut out a tag from heavy stock and covered the tag with my background paper.

I painted the paintbrush and bristles. Using a hot gun I dried the brushes and the bristles, which gives the paintbrush a worn look.

I punched out a large oval from kraft and black polka dotted paper, adhered it to the tag. using The Best Glue Ever.

I stamped the hot air balloon on kraft paper, fussy cut it out and layered it over the oval.

I die cut the word journey out 4 times using kraft paper, stacked and glued them together using The Best Glue Ever, and then heat embossed the word. The word then adhered over the hot air balloon.

I stamped two pieces of ephemera onto the background paper, fussy cut them out.

I finished up by hot gluing all the pieces together for a very cool altered paintbrush!

Thank You for visiting and as always I appreciate your kind comments.

Until Next Time.....

Robin

Masculine "Looking Good" Steam Punk Valentine ScraPerfect 2/2020

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Happy Valentines Day! Robin here with ScraPerfect Blog, sharing my masculine Steam Punk Valentine.

Using my cog and gear die cuts I cut out many different sizes from different papers. I created the focal point embellishment by punching out a 1 1/2 inch circle, adding cogs and gears, adding dimension with pop dots, I embossed my sentiment with sliver embossing powder. Next, I used
The Best Glue Ever, and let me tell you, it is The Best Glue Ever! Quick Dry, Instant Grab, and you need so little, to adhere  my pieces.

Thank You for visiting and as always I appreciate your kind comments

Until Next Time......

Robin

Out of the ordinary Red and Black creation Simply Create Too Feb 2020

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Robin here with Simply Create Too Challenge Blog, We are very fun and welcome any craft on our challenge blog! Do you knit, quilt, paint, upcycle, paper crafter, or mixed media artist? Join us and play along!

This months theme is Red and one of other color. I picked my two favorite colors, red and black. I love using lace in my projects, it adds an interesting texture, After deciding to mix up the colors and make the flowers black, I am very pleased  with my decision.

Do you have a favorite color combo or two??

Thank You for visiting and as always I appreciate your kind comments.

Until Next Time....

Robin

Smack! Pucker Up! Valentine Tag with Lip Balm. ATSM Jan 2020 # 373

January 21 2020

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Smack and Pucker Up,  Robin here with Addicted To Stamps and More Challenge Blog, Our theme this time around is Addicted to Holidays! How fun is that? Join with us and post your creation!                                            Check out my Valentines Day tag complete with lip balm.

How sweet is that? !

I have made a bunch of these for me Valentines this year!

Even for my gentlemen family and friends, 

Motorcycle, Lumber Jacks, Outdoors.

Thank You for visiting and as always I appreciate your kind comments

Until Next Time......

Robin

          Oh I forgot to mention the die cut set, stamps, and lip balm pouches can be found at 

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Must see Steam Punk Pop Up Card ScraPerfect Jan 9 2020

January 9, 2020

Welcome Back Friends, and Happy Hew Year! This year seemed to fly by for me, how about you?

Robin here to share my project for the ScraPerfect Blog. Have you ever tried ScraPerfect's  Best Glue Ever? If not,  you must! Fast drying, quick grab and you need so little.

I created a Steam Punk pop up card for this months inspiration. I used a pop up box die cut set to cut my box. Then I assembled the box and got started on the business of embellishing. I stamped out a few embellishments and die cut the rest. Put it all together for a one of kind card, that folds flat and fits in a card envelope for mailing.

Thank You for visiting and as always I appreciate your kind comments.

Until Next Time....

Robin

January 6, 2020

Welcome Back Friends,

Happy New Year! Robin here with Happy Little Stamper challenge blog. I am on the ATC team and love creating ATC's. also know as Artist Trading Cards! The months theme is masculine. I decide to marry my love for vintage with masculine and come up with this creation.

Creating an  ATC is so fun, only one rule 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 or if your creating a coin 2 1/2 round, that is it! This a project great for your scrap bin. My ATC is made entirely of scraps! So dig in your paper scrap bin and get busy! Be sure to post your creations on the blog, I will see you there!

Thank You for visiting and as always I appreciate your kind comments.

Until Next Time.....

Robin

One Of A Kind Dream Binder Gecko Galz Dec 2019

December 22 2019,

Welcome Back Friends,

Today is my feature day on the Gecko Galz Blog. This is my first post as a design team member! I am so excited to be working with such unique and beautiful images. I chose to work with the images from the Dream Land Collage Set.

I happen to find a small binder from Tim Holtz that had a great grungy, worn feeling. I tore the edges on my images and inked the edges. I die cut words that I feel complimented each image, and put it all together. for a one of kind binder.

Thank You for visiting and as always I appreciate your kind comments

Until Till Next Time....

Robin

Steampunk Christmas Tag Flip ScraPerfect 2019

November 26, 2019

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Robin here with ScraPerfect with a one of kind holiday Steampunk tag flip! I am smitten with Steampunk! I love every aspect of steampunk, an era gone by, the industrial feel, and of the ingenuity of the time.

 Speaking of ingenuity, I used ScraPerfects Best Glue Ever, to assemble my tag flip! Wow fast grab, quick-drying and you need so little glue. Perfect for all your crafting needs.

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I began my project by creating 4 different size tags, use as many tags as you like I had 8 images. I first inked all edges, began laying out my tags in composition form, what, where and dimension or no dimension. I assembled all the tags using my Best Glue Ever. Next, I began the embellishment part of my project. I die cut some cogs and gears, inked some and embellished each tag. I used an ornament hook to string my tags on to finish off my tag flip

The front side of my tags,

Backsides of tags

As for assembly, you can make us of many ways to hold your tag flip together. One could use, a large safety pin, a metal hinged ring, ribbon, or as I have an ornament hook. Have fun with it!

As always Thank You for your kind comments and continued support.

Until next time.......

Robin

His & Hers Coffee Cups Home Decor- Coffee Bean Blog Nov 2019

November 11 2019

Welcome Back Friends,

Robin here with my project for ,Lady Beans Blog. Lemony Fizz Stamps By Rhoda is our sponsor this month with these two super cute coffee cups!

Oh Boy! Do I ever need my coffee in the morning, LOL, the alarm goes off at 5 am and I stumble through  the house till I find the coffee pot! It seems like forever and a day before my coffee has dripped and I can smell the aroma I am addicted too. LOL

Check out my take on these two cute cups,

I love to use found items in my crafting. I found this block set of 3 that spelled out JOY, I fell in love with them, and as you can see they have worked perfectly for my project. I saved the third for another project.

I used a Tim Holtz die cut, Tattered flowers for her cup and I printed out the digi twice and cut his mustache in brown.

Wouldn't these look cute in your kitchen setting by your coffee maker??

Thank You for visiting and as always I appreciate your kind comments

Stay tuned for more projects using Lemony Fizz Stamps by Rhoda

Until Next Time......

Robin

Merry and Bright ATC for Happy Little Stamper ATC Team Nov 2019

November 7 2019

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Robin here with Happy Little Stamper Challenge Blog ATC Team. This month's challenge is calling for the use of Die Cuts! I came up with what I think is a very Merry and Bright ATC!

I love creating ATC's, little miniature works of art! I always start in my scrap bin and work from there, this ATC was made from scraps! Don't throw nothing away!! Even my baker's twine was a scrap piece from another project!

Are you getting ready for the holidays?? After creating my ATC, I am feeling Merry and Bright!!

Thank You for visiting and as always, I appreciate your kind comments

Until Next Time............

Robin